One Direction Christmas Ornaments

Once you've decided on what color Christmas tree you're going to use it's time to put some thought into planning how you're going to decorate your tree.   When it comes to decorating the Christmas trees there's four factors to consider.

Personally I would just use your regular Christmas lights for a 1D tree as I think they'd work really well.   If you need to buy some then I would just get fairly plain multi-colored lights, if you really, really felt like you needed special Christmas lights then I'd look at some star shaped lights as the boys are all stars!

Now there isn't any One Direction tinsel on the market that I've discovered so far, so does that mean you should use tinsel or not?   Well I'm torn in this aspect because to me tinsel says Christmas, but if it doesn't say 1D.......

There's a few options available for you -

1. Forget about tinsel - it's old fashioned anyway!
2. Use tinsel that compliments your 1D tree.
3. Find something to substitute for tinsel on your tree.

If you decide to forget all about tinsel then you can just jump straight ahead to the ornament stage of tree decorating.   If you've decided to use tinsel then you can decide on what color you want, I recommend red for two reasons - one it's Christmassy and two it's used alot on 1D logos and merchandising so it's in keeping for your tree.

What about substituting something else for tinsel?   Well I've found just the thing and personally I think this could be the best of the three options.

At the time of writing I can only find One Direction Christmas ornaments available on ebay and there seems to be two types of them as you can see below.

The doll style of each member of the band and the photo based Christmas ornament.

There are other alternatives that you can use to decorate your One Direction tree with however and they include making your own Christmas ornaments and using other things besides custom made Christmas ornaments on the tree.

Reusing some of your existing 1D goodies is a great way of keeping your decorating budget under control while also making sure that your tree has it's own unique One Direction flavor to it.

One of the things which is easy to use in place of (or as well as) Christmas ornaments is bookmarks.   Some bookmarks have a ribbon attached which you can simply use to hang onto the branches, other ones you'll need to punch a hole in one end and attach your own ribbon.

Now I have seen One Direction bookmarks in shops, but I can't find any online at the time of writing, however you can make your own bookmark and use that - check out the Youtube video below for two ways of easily creating your own bookmark.

Another thing that you can use on your Christmas tree is jewelry, in particular the dog tag style of necklace that is very popular these days.

Sometimes you need to look outside of the box to decorate a truly stunning tree and add a few extra ornaments that seem representative of One Direction to you, like a pigeon, music notes or microphones.

It takes a real fan to understand that the pigeon's name is Kevin and why shouldn't you pay homage to Louis' toy pigeon which one of these Christmas ornaments?

There are several different ways to make your own 1D Christmas ornaments, to make a few of them you'll need to use a One Direction stencil.   Now this is pretty easy to make yourself rather than trying to buy one so here's a video to take you through how to make a stencil (if you haven't done it before).

One of the easiest ways to make a One Direction Christmas ornaments is to use a plastic fillable Christmas bauble.

Shape the cutting to mold onto the inside of the bauble and it will just look like a round 1D ornament - if the image is a little hard to do that to then simply take a piece of cardboard and make it so that it will just fit into the middle of the bauble when shut.   Now glue an image on both sides of this and add to the bauble for a two sided image (you can also add some confetti to the ornament to add a little extra when making this option.

Another option requires glitter, glue and paint.    Open up the bauble and spread glue over the inside and cover liberally with glitter, then do it up.   This is a great way of getting a glitter ornament without the glitter coming off.   Now for the outside, there are a couple of different options for this - you can use a stencil and paint the 1D logo onto the outside or you can simply write the words Mrs Horan/Tomlinson/Payne/Malik/Styles whichever name is appropriate.

If you cut out the logo then simply paint it, make a small hole to thread a ribbon through and hang on tree.   If you've cut out a different shape like the heart or oval then paint this a base color and after the paint has dried use the stencil to paint the 1D logo on top of the base color - or do five of them with all of the boys individual names on them.

Check out how my daughter and I made our own 1D Christmas ornaments (you can see one of them in the introduction image) last year -

How To Make 1D Christmas Ornaments

Now it's time to look at what to put on the top of your Christmas tree and I think the obvious thing is to put up a star.   Let's face it each and every member of One Direction is a star so what else should be on the top of a One Direction tree?

In all honesty you could put a One Direction doll on the top of the tree, but who's doll would you choose?

Now it's time for you to go off and create your perfect One Direction Christmas tree, I hope you've got some good ideas from my page and that you have a truly beautiful 1D holiday season.